Ashley McGuirehttp://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/11958/0
enWashPost Religion Page Omits Conservative Catholic Woman's Defense of Church While Lamenting Pope Ignores Womenhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/02/17/hypocritical-washpost-religion-page-omits-conservative-catholic-womans
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Last Saturday I noted how the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/02/09/washpost-faith-page-celebrates-muslim-modesty-trashes-catholic-bishops">On Faith feature in the February 9 Washington Post </a>celebrated Muslim modesty while trashing American Catholic bishops as being prudish on sex and stubborn in their opposition to the ObamaCare contraception mandate. Well this weekend, the Post continued its hypocritical attack on the Church by complaining that it doesn&#39;t listen to women while, well, squelching the op-ed piece of a conservative Catholic woman.</p>
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The February 16 On Faith section published two items related to Pope Benedict&#39;s announcement on Monday that he was abdicating the papacy at the end of February. Editors ran Lisa Miller&#39;s column headlined <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/wanted-by-american-nuns-a-pope-who-listens-to-and-appreciates-female-leadership/2013/02/14/5a93f942-76cb-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html">&quot;Some nuns hope new pope will listen to women,&quot;</a> in which the Post religion writer highlighted the calls of feminist nuns for, among other things, an openness by the Church to female priests. Also featured on the page B2 feature was a 7-paragraph item by one Annie Selak, headlined <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/the-church-young-catholics-want/2013/02/14/de08eae2-760a-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_blog.html">&quot;The church young Catholics want,&quot;</a> which included a call for the Church to &quot;dialogue concerning the ordination of women and church teaching on homosexuality.&quot; Yet On Faith editors declined to feature in print an excellent piece by a conservative Catholic woman that was published online earlier in the week.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:46:00 +0000Ken Shepherd58429 at http://newsbusters.org